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TIL the most recent beheading for sorcery in Saudi Arabia was in 2012.

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xV96g TIL: The phrase "[murdered] in cold blood" doesn't refer to someone being cruel. It refers to the killer having had time to think over the crime and still do it in a calculated way. As opposed to doing it in the "heat of passion", their blood had time to cool before they committed the crime.
YQaP TIL the Canadian $100 banknote featured an Asian woman on the back using a microscope. People complained that it was stereotyping Asians as being good at technology. She was replaced with a Caucasian woman, and then more people complained that Caucasians were being favoured.
kJ4Yg TIL Philadelphia's Liberty Bell was transported to San Francisco for 1915's Pan-Pacific International Exposition. It was taken to six different festivals between 1885 and 1904.
yygp TIL That the federal government takes a percentage (as high as 47% in recent years) of every raisin farmer’s crops… every year… without paying for them. This is due to an arcane law still on the books from WWII reconstruction.
0wYrv TIL Actor Christopher Lee went as a volunteer to Finland during winter war but he and others was sent home because of their poor skiing skills (Article in finnish)